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Description:
What happens when a Cuban doctor is imprisoned by Castro as a resistance leader and his wife must choose between helping her husband stay alive and staying with her young children? This dilemma is at the heart of the harrowing true saga of Lino and Emy Fernandez. For seventeen years. Lino fights against life-threatening cruelty and attempted humiliation in prison while Emy tries to live with the consequences of the decision she made.
Reviews:
"Remarkable and stunning"
Kay Abella has captured the realities of life in Castro's Cuba with the precision of a great historian and the grace and eloquence of a consummate novelist, bringing to life not only the central characters in her narrative, but also an entire nation. A testament to the resiliency of the human spirit, and a poignant reminder of the suffering that ideologues can cause, this should be required reading for the whole world, and especially for those who continue to think highly of the so-called "achievements" of Fidel Castro or any other despot.
- Carlos Eire
Author of Waiting for Snow in Havana
Winner of National Book Award
An impressively written, highly recommended novel. When Lino Fernandez, a young Cuban doctor is charged with being a resistance leader and imprisoned by Castro, his wife Emy must choose between staying in Cuba to help her husband survive prison, and taking their three young children to freedom in Miami in "Fighting Castro: A Love Story" by journalist, editor and author Kay Abella.
With an impressive attention to detail concerning life in Castro's Cuba, the interweaving of social commentary into a work of engaging storytelling, and a genuine flair for narrative, "Fighting Castro: A Love Story" is an impressively written, highly recommended novel of relationships, struggle, hard choices, even harder consequences, and through it all -- the endurance of the human spirit.
- Midwest Book Review
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